so that they never try to lock an inode corresponding to ".." as this
can lead to deadlock. We observe that any inode with an updated link count
is always pushed into its buffer at the time of the link count change, so
we do not need to do a VOP_UPDATE, but merely find its buffer and write it.
The only time we need to get the inode itself is from the result of a
mkdir whose name will never be ".." and hence locking such an inode will
never request a lock above us in the filesystem tree. Thanks to Brian
Fundakowski Feldman for providing the test program that tickled soft updates
into hanging in "inode" sleep.
Submitted by: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
to sleep). Locking 101, part 2: do not look at buffer contents after
you have been asleep. There is no telling what wonderous changes may
have occurred.
This seems to be responsible for a bunch of panics where the process
sleeps and something else finds softupdates "locked" when it shouldn't
be. This commit is unreviewed, but has been a big help here.
Previously my boxes would panic pretty much on the first fsync() that
wrote something to disk.
it is no longer sufficient to get a lock on a buffer to know
that its write has been completed. We have to first get the
lock on the buffer, then check to see if it is doing a
background write. If it is doing background write, we have
to wait for the background write to finish, then check to see
if that fullfilled our dependency, and if not to start another
write. Luckily the explanation is longer than the fix.
a vnode has not been written (which would clear certain of its
dependencies). The problems arises because fsync with MNT_NOWAIT
no longer pushes all the dirty blocks associated with a vnode. It
skips those that require rollbacks, since they will just get instantly
dirty again. Such skipped blocks are marked so that they will not be
skipped a second time (otherwise circular dependencies would never
clear). So, we fsync twice to ensure that everything will be written
at least once.
The problem occurs when an indirect block and a data block are
being allocated at the same time. For example when the 13th block
of the file is written, the filesystem needs to allocate the first
indirect block and a data block. If the indirect block allocation
succeeds, but the data block allocation fails, the error code
dellocates the indirect block as it has nothing at which to point.
Unfortunately, it does not deallocate the indirect block's associated
dependencies which then fail when they find the block unexpectedly
gone (ptr == 0 instead of its expected value). The fix is to fsync
the file before doing the block rollback, as the fsync will flush
out all of the dependencies. Once the rollback is done the file
must be fsync'ed again so that the soft updates code does not find
unexpected changes. This approach is much slower than writing the
code to back out the extraneous dependencies, but running out of
disk space is not expected to be a common occurence, so just getting
it right is the main criterion.
PR: kern/15063
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@stacken.kth.se>
have been cleaned up by deallocte_dependencies(). Once that is done, it
is safe to post the request to free the blocks. A similar change is also
needed for the freefile case.
1) Fastpath deletions. When a file is being deleted, check to see if it
was so recently created that its inode has not yet been written to
disk. If so, the delete can proceed to immediately free the inode.
2) Background writes: No file or block allocations can be done while the
bitmap is being written to disk. To avoid these stalls, the bitmap is
copied to another buffer which is written thus leaving the original
available for futher allocations.
3) Link count tracking. Constantly track the difference in i_effnlink and
i_nlink so that inodes that have had no change other than i_effnlink
need not be written.
4) Identify buffers with rollback dependencies so that the buffer flushing
daemon can choose to skip over them.
of dirrem structure rather than the collaterally created freeblks
and freefile structures. Limit the rate of buffer dirtying by the
syncer process during periods of intense file removal.
check before the inode is unlocked while grabbing its parent directory.
Once it is unlocked, other operations may slip in that could make
the inode-is-flushed check fail. Allowing other writes to the inode
before returning from fsync does not break the semantics of fsync
since we have flushed everything that was dirty at the time of the
fsync call.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
when I made the absence of the clean flag sticky in rev.1.88. This
was a problem main for "mount /". There is no way to mount "/" for
writing without using mount -u (normally implicitly), so after
"mount -f /" of an unclean filesystem, the absence of the clean flag
was sticky forever.
quite dangerous, since the process may hold locks at the point,
and if it is stopped in that tsleep the machine may hang. Because
the sleep is so short, the PCATCH is not required here, so it has
been removed. For the future, the FreeBSD team needs to decide
whether it is still reasonable to stop a process in tsleep, as that
may affect any other code that uses PCATCH while holding kernel locks.
Submitted by: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
* lockstatus() and VOP_ISLOCKED() gets a new process argument and a new
return value: LK_EXCLOTHER, when the lock is held exclusively by another
process.
* The ASSERT_VOP_(UN)LOCKED family is extended to use what this gives them
* Extend the vnode_if.src format to allow more exact specification than
locked/unlocked.
This commit should not do any semantic changes unless you are using
DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS.
Discussed with: grog, mch, peter, phk
Reviewed by: peter
Correctly lock vnodes when calling VOP_OPEN() from filesystem mount code.
Unify spec_open() for bdev and cdev cases.
Remove the disabled bdev specific read/write code.
the soft updates changes: only report the link count to be i_effnlink
in ufs_getattr() for file systems that maintain i_effnlink.
Tested by: Mike Dracopoulos <mdraco@math.uoa.gr>
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
been set for a mount point. Insert missing checks to ensure that all
write operations are done asynchronously when the MNT_ASYNC option
has been requested.
Submitted by: Craig A Soules <soules+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
The cdevsw_add() function now finds the major number(s) in the
struct cdevsw passed to it. cdevsw_add_generic() is no longer
needed, cdevsw_add() does the same thing.
cdevsw_add() will print an message if the d_maj field looks bogus.
Remove nblkdev and nchrdev variables. Most places they were used
bogusly. Instead check a dev_t for validity by seeing if devsw()
or bdevsw() returns NULL.
Move bdevsw() and devsw() functions to kern/kern_conf.c
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 400006
This commit removes:
72 bogus makedev() calls
26 bogus SYSINIT functions
if_xe.c bogusly accessed cdevsw[], author/maintainer please fix.
I4b and vinum not changed. Patches emailed to authors. LINT
probably broken until they catch up.
a sync on the block device for the filesystem. That allows it to push the
bitmap blocks before the inode blocks which greatly reduces the number of
inode rollbacks that need to be done.
Made a new (inline) function devsw(dev_t dev) and substituted it.
Changed to the BDEV variant to this format as well: bdevsw(dev_t dev)
DEVFS will eventually benefit from this change too.
Virtualize bdevsw[] from cdevsw. bdevsw() is now an (inline)
function.
Join CDEV_MODULE and BDEV_MODULE to DEV_MODULE (please pay attention
to the order of the cmaj/bmaj arguments!)
Join CDEV_DRIVER_MODULE and BDEV_DRIVER_MODULE to DEV_DRIVER_MODULE
(ditto!)
(Next step will be to convert all bdev dev_t's to cdev dev_t's
before they get to do any damage^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork in the kernel.)
files at once on a filesystem running soft updates. The root of
the problem is that soft updates limits the amount of memory that
may be allocated to dependency structures so as to avoid hogging
kernel memory. The original algorithm just waited for the disk I/O
to catch up and reduce the number of dependencies. This new code
takes a much more aggressive approach. Basically there are two
resources that routinely hit the limit. Inode dependencies during
periods with a high file creation rate and file and block removal
dependencies during periods with a high file removal rate. I have
attacked these problems from two fronts. When the inode dependency
limits are reached, I pick a random inode dependency, UFS_UPDATE
it together with all the other dirty inodes contained within its
disk block and then write that disk block. This trick usually
clears 5-50 inode dependencies in a single disk I/O. For block and
file removal dependencies, I pick a random directory page that has
at least one remove pending and VOP_FSYNC its directory. That
releases all its removal dependencies to the work queue. To further
hasten things along, I also immediately start the work queue process
rather than waiting for its next one second scheduled run.
piecemeal, middle-of-file writes for NFS. These hacks have caused no
end of trouble, especially when combined with mmap(). I've removed
them. Instead, NFS will issue a read-before-write to fully
instantiate the struct buf containing the write. NFS does, however,
optimize piecemeal appends to files. For most common file operations,
you will not notice the difference. The sole remaining fragment in
the VFS/BIO system is b_dirtyoff/end, which NFS uses to avoid cache
coherency issues with read-merge-write style operations. NFS also
optimizes the write-covers-entire-buffer case by avoiding the
read-before-write. There is quite a bit of room for further
optimization in these areas.
The VM system marks pages fully-valid (AKA vm_page_t->valid =
VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL) in several places, most noteably in vm_fault. This
is not correct operation. The vm_pager_get_pages() code is now
responsible for marking VM pages all-valid. A number of VM helper
routines have been added to aid in zeroing-out the invalid portions of
a VM page prior to the page being marked all-valid. This operation is
necessary to properly support mmap(). The zeroing occurs most often
when dealing with file-EOF situations. Several bugs have been fixed
in the NFS subsystem, including bits handling file and directory EOF
situations and buf->b_flags consistancy issues relating to clearing
B_ERROR & B_INVAL, and handling B_DONE.
getblk() and allocbuf() have been rewritten. B_CACHE operation is now
formally defined in comments and more straightforward in
implementation. B_CACHE for VMIO buffers is based on the validity of
the backing store. B_CACHE for non-VMIO buffers is based simply on
whether the buffer is B_INVAL or not (B_CACHE set if B_INVAL clear,
and vise-versa). biodone() is now responsible for setting B_CACHE
when a successful read completes. B_CACHE is also set when a bdwrite()
is initiated and when a bwrite() is initiated. VFS VOP_BWRITE
routines (there are only two - nfs_bwrite() and bwrite()) are now
expected to set B_CACHE. This means that bowrite() and bawrite() also
set B_CACHE indirectly.
There are a number of places in the code which were previously using
buf->b_bufsize (which is DEV_BSIZE aligned) when they should have
been using buf->b_bcount. These have been fixed. getblk() now clears
B_DONE on return because the rest of the system is so bad about
dealing with B_DONE.
Major fixes to NFS/TCP have been made. A server-side bug could cause
requests to be lost by the server due to nfs_realign() overwriting
other rpc's in the same TCP mbuf chain. The server's kernel must be
recompiled to get the benefit of the fixes.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
to write all the dirty blocks. If some of those blocks have dependencies,
they will be remarked dirty when the I/O completes. On systems with
really fast I/O systems, it is possible to get in an infinite loop trying
to flush the buffers, because the I/O finishes before we can get all the
dirty buffers off the v_dirtyblkhd list and into the I/O queue. (The
previous algorithm looped over the v_dirtyblkhd list writing out buffers
until the list emptied.) So, now we mark each buffer that we try to
write so that we can distinguish the ones that are being remarked dirty
from those that we have not yet tried to flush. Once we have tried to
push every buffer once, we then push any associated metadata that is
causing the remaining buffers to be redirtied.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
turns out to not be useful to unwind the dependencies and continue in
the face of a fatal error.
Also changed the log() to a printf() in softdep_error() so that it will
be output in the case of a impending panic.
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
MNT_WAIT when we mean boolean `true' or check for that value not being
passed. There was no problem in practice because MNT_WAIT had the
magic value of 1.
basically do a on-the-fly defragmentation of the FFS filesystem, changing
file block allocations to make them contiguous. Thanks to Kirk McKusick
for providing hints on what needed to be done to get this working.
They checked for the magic major number for the "device" behind mfs
mount points. Use a more obvious check for this device.
Debugged by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
when bdevsw[] became sparse. We still depend on magic to avoid having to
check that (v_rdev) device numbers in vnodes are not NODEV.
Removed redundant `major(dev) < nblkdev' tests instead of updating them.
The problem is caused when a directory block is compacted. When this
occurs, softdep_change_directoryentry_offset() is called to relocate each
directory entry and adjust its matching diradd structure, if any, to match
the new location of the entry. The bug is that while
softdep_change_directoryentry_offset() correctly adjusts the offsets of
the diradd structures on the pd_diraddhd[] lists (which are not yet ready
to be committed to disk), it fails to adjust the offsets of the diradd
structures on the pd_pendinghd list (which are ready to be committed to
disk). This causes the dependency structures to be inconsistent with
the buf contents. Now, if the compaction has moved a directory entry to
the same offset as one of the diradd structures on the pd_pendinghd list
*and* a syscall is done that tries to remove this directory entry before
this directory block has been written to disk (which would empty
pd_pendinghd), a sanity check in newdirrem() will call panic() when it
notices that the inode number in the entry that it is to be removed doesn't
match the inode number in the diradd structure with that offset of that
entry.
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Submitted by: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
- don't set the clean flag on unmount of an unclean filesystem that was
(forcibly) mounted rw.
- set the clean flag on rw -> ro update of a mounted initially-clean
filesystem.
- fixed some style bugs (mostly long lines).
This uses the fs_flags field and FS_UNCLEAN state bit which were
introduced in the softdep changes. NetBSD uses extra state bits in
fs_clean.
Reviewed by: luoqui
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Two minor changes are also included,
1. Remove gratuitious checks for error return from vn_lock with LK_RETRY set,
vn_lock should always succeed in these cases.
2. Back out change rev. 1.36->1.37, which unnecessarily makes async mount
a little more unstable. It also keeps us in sync with other BSDs.
Suggested by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
references to them.
The change a couple of days ago to ignore these numbers in statically
configured vfsconf structs was slightly premature because the cd9660,
cfs, devfs, ext2fs, nfs vfs's still used MOUNT_* instead of the number
in their vfsconf struct.
device drivers about sectors no longer in use.
Device-drivers receive the call through d_strategy, if they have
D_CANFREE in d_flags.
This allows flash based devices to erase the sectors and avoid
pointlessly carrying them around in compactions.
Reviewed by: Kirk Mckusick, bde
Sponsored by: M-Systems (www.m-sys.com)
